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Prepared Statement of Quincy Jones, Songwriter and Member of AmSong,
Inc.
Good morning, Chairman Moorhead and members of the subcommittee. My name is Quincy Jones, and I am a songwiiter and member of AiuSong, Inc.
AmSong is a not-for-profit association representing a vast cross-section of America's songwriting community. .■\mSong's membership ranges from the great American musical estates of Irving Berlin, Ira and George Gershwin, Rodgers and Haramerstein, Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini, lo .America's finest contemporary songuTiters such as Bob Dylan, Don Henley, Billy Joel, Stephen Sondheim, Alan Menken, Dave Brubeck and Lionel Richie, to name a few.
.AmSong is dedicated to the protection of American intellectual property. Of paramount concern lo .AmSong's membership, and one of the reasons that I myself became a member of AmSong, is to insure that this countw provides copyright protection for its citizens' creations for a fair and reasonable period of time. Several members of AmSong, who arc unable to testify this morning, have prepared statements in support of H.R. 989. I will be placing into the record, personal statements by a number of .\mSong members, including Bob Dylan. Stephen Sondheim, Alan Menken, Blen Donaldson, and Mrs. Heniy Mancini.
Two weeks ago on July 1, 1995 the countries making up the European Union implemented a uniform term of copyright which is that of the life of the author plus 70 years. .As part of that process, these countries have invoked the "rule of the shorter term" when determining the extent of copyright protection. I'his means that the works created outside of the countries that are a part of the European Union will be protected for the shorter of life plus 70 years or the term in effect in the country where the work was created. This means that under the current laws, songs such as "In The Heat Of The Night" and "The Lyes Of Love" both of which 1 wrote in 1967 will go out of copyright in vq42, while a song written in England, France, or Germany in the same year! by an author the same age as myself, will remain protected until 70 years after his death. If the European author dies at the age of 85 iii the year 2018, his work will contiime to be protected until 2088. That is a full 46 years of protection beyond that which is provided for my work in the United